The Ned-liest Catch/References

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The Ned-liest Catch

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Cultural references

• The title of the episode is a parody of The Deadliest Catch, a show The Simpsons has referenced numerous times.
• The song played in the background as Ned and Edna go dating is "Heaven Must Have Sent You" by the Elgins.
• Joey Kramer (drummer for Aerosmith) refers to "Walk This Way" and "Love in an Elevator", two Aerosmith songs. The former song appeared in "Flaming Moe's".

Trivia

• After this episode first aired, viewers could go online and vote on the Simpsons website if Edna and Ned should or shouldn't stay together. They ended up staying together. When the episode airs in reruns, a message is displayed stating "VOTING HAS ENDED", plus during the closing credits, Marge tells the viewers that if they are watching a rerun of this episode or on DVD, it is too late to vote, with Homer berating them for not taking the opportunity earlier.
• This is the second episode to finish a season with a cliffhanger. The first was Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One). Ironically, the scene that tells the audience to make their votes in this episode's ending references the infamous conclusion of that episode.
• This is the first episode where the opening sequence is very short. Here, it goes from the "P" of "THE SIMPSONS" directly to the first scene of the episode. This version of the opening later appeared in "The Falcon and the D'ohman", "The Food Wife", "The Book Job", "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants", .Adventures in Baby-Getting", "The Day the Earth Stood Cool", "To Cur, with Love", "Steal This Episode", "The War of Art", "Brick Like Me", "Opposites A-Frack", "The Musk Who Fell to Earth", "Sky Police", "Cue Detective", "Halloween of Horror", "The Girl Code", "Much Apu About Something", "The Marge-ian Chronicles", "Simprovised", "The Town", "There Will Be Buds", and "The Great Phatsby". 
• The last time Homer expressed disbelief about Maggie shooting Mr. Burns occurred in "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times".
• The last time a Springfield Elementary School faculty member got suspended for laying a hand on Bart occurred in "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer".
• Edna compliments Ned for having a calling card printed in orange. Ned, as he was impressing her with rhymes, is left speechless. This is a reference to the word 'orange' having no rhyming words in the English language.
• The last time a character waited for the bathroom while oblivious to the bathroom actually being free and another character escaping occurred in "Homie the Clown".
• Joey Kramer (drummer for Aerosmith) appears again, recalling the adventure they had in "Flaming Moe's", after Edna tells him to "come and get 'em [your drumsticks]".
• Lewis Clark's mother can be seen in the Teacher Holding Facility.
• This is the fifth episode to not have the Couch Gag, Billboard Gag, and the Chalkboard Gag.
• This episode mentions that Mrs. Krabappel weighs at least 136 pounds.
• This episode was the last one to star Ilaria Stagni and Liù Bosisio as the Italian voices of Bart and Marge respectively, due to the reduction in remuneration. They were replaced by Gaia Bolognesi and Sonia Scotti since the episode The Falcon and the D'ohman.
  • The same change was made at the voice of Abe, Mario Milita, which was replaced by Mino Caprio due to his old age.
• When Ned finds out that Edna has been with a lot of men, he sees their faces instead of Edna's when he tries to kiss her. Characters that have kissed Edna Krabappel include:
  • Lenny
  • Principal Skinner (multiple episodes between "Grade School Confidential" and "My Big Fat Geek Wedding")
  • Comic Book Guy ("My Big Fat Geek Wedding")
  • Joey Kramer ("Flaming Moe's")
  • Disco Stu
  • Drederick Tatum
  • Bumblebee Man
  • Professor Frink
  • Krusty
  • Patty Bouvier (alluded to in "Rome-Old and Julie-Eh")
  • Moe ("The Seemingly Never-Ending Story")
  • Barney Gumble*
  • Arnie Pye*
  • Groundskeeper Willie* ("On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister")
  • Kent Brockman*
  • Reverend Lovejoy*
  • Legs*
  • Lionel Hutz* ("Secrets of a Successful Marriage")

*indicates that this character appears after Moe moves out of the way to reveal the "crowd" who is waiting to take turns being Edna's face

Goofs

• At the start of this episode, Lisa is seen in the school audience behind Miss Hoover. But, she then appears to make a speech for the school's girls basketball team, "Springfield Lady Pumas", as the equipment manager.
• In this episode, when Ned catches Edna, he says that he never met her before, yet he briefly dated her in "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", after his wife, Maude, was killed.
• Ned says that the Leftorium is an anchor store and has been in business for ten years. It makes no sense because the episode where the Leftorium was opened is in season 3, 19 seasons before this one.

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